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Recipients of 2001 AOU Research Awards

Eva Sanders Allen, Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University - Genetics of the hybrid zone between Bullock's Oriole and Baltimore Oriole

Barbara Ballentine, Ph.D. candidate, Duke University - Does vocal performance influence female choice in Swamp Sparrows?

Isabelle-Anne Bisson, Ph.D. candidate, Queen's University - Evolutionary origin of avian migration in a tropical kingbird

Patricia L. R. Brennan, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - Mating strategies of the Great Tinamou, a species with uniparental male care

Alexis Chaine, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Santa Cruz - Sexual selection, signaling, and plumage variation in Lark Buntings

Jill L. Deppe, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Riverside - Selection of stopover habitat by trans-gulf Nearctic-Neotropical migrant landbirds in Yucatan, Mexico

Joseph J. Fontaine, M.S. candidate, University of Montana - Nest predation and phenotypic expression in breeding birds

Ada C. Fowler, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Davis - Population structuring in Cackling Canada Geese

Cameron Gillies, Ph.D. candidate, University of Alberta - Land cover change and bird movement in the tropical dry forests of Costa Rica

Jennifer Grindstaff, Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University - Effects of the maternal environment on antibody transmission to eggs and the consequences for offspring growth and immune development

Mark E. Hauber, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - Social experience and species recognition in brood parasites

Dana M. Hawley, Ph.D candidate, Cornell University - Immunocompetence as currency for carotenoid ornamentation in House Finches

Michael M. Kasumovic, M.S. candidate, Queen's University - Settlement patterns and fitness consequences associated with territory position within a Least Flycatcher cluster

Auston Marm Kilpatrick, Ph.D. candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Evolution of host resistance to a new parasite: the effect of avian malaria on the breeding performance of a native Hawaiian honeycreeper, the Hawaii Amakihi

Alan Krakauer, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Berkeley - Reproductive coalitions in Wild Turkeys: Why do subordinate males stay?

Elizabeth R. Loos, Ph.D. candidate, University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Clutch size limitation in precocial birds: beyond energetics

Lynn B. Martin II, Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University - Is variation in House Sparrow life histories related to immunocompetence?

Kevin David Matson, Ph.D. candidate, University of Missouri-St. Louis - Maintenance of immune system function in Hawaii's introduced birds

Troy G. Murphy, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - An investigation into the function of elaborate plumage in the monomorphic Turquoise-browed Motmot

Laura R. Nagy, Ph.D. candidate, Dartmouth College - Determinants of annual breeding productivity of a Neotropical migrant bird, the Black-throated Blue Warbler

Jacqueline K. Nooker, M.S. candidate, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - An experimental study of female condition and offspring sex ratio in Tree Swallows

Ryan Norris, Ph.D. candidate, Queen's University - Linking summer and winter events in a long-distance migratory bird

Kathleen D. O'Connor, M.S. candidate, University of British Columbia - Effects of extra-pair fertilizations on estimates of effective population size

Tara A. Paton, Ph.D. candidate, University of Toronto - Complete mitochondrial genome sequences to determine family-level relationships among the Charadriiformes: the affinities of Glariolids, Jacanas, Painted-snipes, Thick-knees, and Plovers

Kevin M. Pilz, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - Do yolk androgens modify chick competitiveness? A test in the European Starling

Rebecca Jo Safran, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - The role of individual decisions in forming population-level patterns: female reproductive strategies and variation in group-size of breeding Barn Swallows

Justin Schuetz, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - Fickle females?: mate choice and the loss of elaborate tails in a group of African finches

Elisa Tarlow, M.S. candidate, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign - Energetic costs of passerine migration

Rebecca Tittler, Research Assistant, University of Quebec-Montreal - 15N levels and songbirds in agricultural and forest landscapes

Jason D. Weckstein, Ph.D. candidate, Louisiana State University - A cophylogenetic analysis of avian hosts and their parasites: toucans and chewing lice

C. Morgan Wilson, Ph.D. candidate, University of Mississippi - Adaptations for reproducing under different time and energy constraints by the Yellow Warbler

Members of the 2008 AOU Research Awards Committee